h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes Paul, Dad would have been about fifth from youngest I think

People who grow up as only children can pass themselves off as the youngest or the oldest as they see fit.

i am told this is not so. only children live a different life than firstborns, "sandwich kids" and last borns

80 years old and she said the leaves weren't as green...

She knew her time was nearly up. We are all leaves on the same tree and some go yellow before others and those tend to fall first.

What an open and honest and gentle thing for her to say. Where ever she's gone to I'm going too.

She was an absolutely marvelous woman who is still remembered by many, so many decades after her death. They named the new elementary school after her.

The color receptors in the eye can fade late in life, especially the ones that see blue. Greens would look more like yellow. She probably was telling the truth about what she was seeing. No one could have done anything about it, though.

who

The lady mentioned in post 1, Pierce dearest

If you live long enough, it could happen to you, too, Pierce.

i hope not

well, not that i would not like to live long, but my eye sight is bad enough as it is

but i'm not going to let that worry me

millions of people are worse off than me - maybe even billions

In what way are they worse off?

i live in a country never threatened by wildfires, earth quakes, tsunamis or anything even remotely similar

the most dangerous animals here are wasps and adders. on average they kill two citizens every year (out of a population of 5 millions)

so far we have not been bothered (much) by car bombs or other terrorists attacks

i pay a lot of taxes (according to the news we have held the world record for years) but on the other hand i have a fair health insurance and even if i am a single now i can rely on people to help me when i need them to

personally i have to deal with a few ailments, but had i lived in certain other countries my fate would have been worse

what more can i tell you?

You can tell me if you have houses for sale in your neighborhood.

Give me a moment to pack my bags......

actually housing prices have dropped dramatically these last two years so there are a lot of houses for sale at the moment

I'll trade you Iceland for Denmark . (Just kidding!)

ha, iceland used to be ours, but we let it go in good time

you could give us back the Virgin Islands though. we sold them to you 31. march 1917 for 25 million dollars - a price that is still acceptable for us

As us again in 2017.
Throw in Hongkong and/or Kowloon, and the deal will be even better.

kowloon is a good place to eat, i hear

by the way, i hear oprah is in copenhagen with barack and michelle and a rather lengthy list of other celebrities trying to convince the international olympic committee to make chicago the home town of the 2016 olympics

when she heard that different surveys have have several times appointed denmark 'the happiest nation in the world' she decided to find out why and make a special broadcast on the issue. they say it will be aired in 145 countries worldwide so you should have a good chance to see it the 9th october

funny this should happen just when i told you about how happy i am living here

let me remind you that i was born and grew up in germany so i could be just a tiny bit biased

I'm sure you aren't alone in having left Germany. Some of my ancestors had to leave France because they were Huguenauts; they went to Germany and became Germans, then left Germany for America. We're still in America, because we've run out of places that would have us.

That sounds like a good story idea.

Excuse me.

it does

with writing it